Every Netflix Original Series Still To Come In 2017 - Ranked By Anticipation

7. Wormwood

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Errol Morris has earned a reputation as one of the finest documentarians of all time, especially with The Thin Blue Line, and now he's bringing those talents to Netflix - but not quite how you might expect.

Part of the six-episode miniseries unfolds like you might expect: it's examining the LSD experiments conducted by the CIA in the 1950s, and more pertinently the death of operative Frank Rudolph Olson, who died after falling from his New York hotel room in 1953 - after secretly being given LSD. His son Eric has been determined to find out what really happened to him since, something the doc gets into via interviews.

However, there's also a scripted element to the series, featuring actors like Peter Sarsgaard and Molly Parker, that'll unfold in dreamlike fashion and chronicle the days leading to Frank's death.

Release Date: December 15

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